Had my tranfer rod come loose last year at the end of the season, just about the time that I returned to my truck, but didn't notice it til I was checking over the suspension, when I discovered the rear bolt had fallen out. The problem was the suspension collapsed forward against the two inner boggie wheels and wedged itself against the rails. After I disassembled the arm mount at the rails I was able to free the arm from being wedged. It must have happened just at the end of that ride as the arm was resting against the boggie wheels, yet it only lightly scuffed the arm, so I wouldn't remove the tranfer rod as you may not be so lucky as I was to only scuff the arm. Replacing the tranfer rod as the old one was missing spacers, bearing and bolt, was able to pickup a used transfer rod assemble.